Derick W J Tan

You can download almost, if not all of the brochures in Sitex from the following link:

http://www.bootstrike.com/itshow2008/

The file size is pretty big but it’s really quite comprehensive.

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So many pretty girls =)

Haha, I just came back from Sitex and yeah there were quite a number of attractive ladies out there – mostly selling things no one buys, unfortunately - but that’s not the important thing here.

The important thing is that I’ve found my laptop which is the BenQ S42, but the promotion kind of suck. Currently they’re only offering a free upgrade to 4gb ram, 160gb Toshiba External HardDrive and I think a 1 year extended warranty.

The ram and warranty are normal, considering promotions that other brands are offering, but the hard disk is a little meh. ASUS is offering a 250gb Western Digital Portable Drive - a leading brand in HDD technology - including tiny but important things like a bag and a bloody mouse.

Call me a fussy cheapskate but there was nothing attractive about the promotion or the booth itself.

The entire place felt empty with, initially, so many promoters huddled together that I couldn’t even see the laptop. Then after I came back a couple of hours later, there was like just one kid standing there looking all lost and everything. Even the laptop itself looked dead with a simple demonstration on the screen that was poorly designed to attract attention.

Other booths like ASUS or Sony was like “WOAH!” Bright lights everywhere, with promoters (guys and ladies) looking all charming, lovely, friendly and - most importantly - alive and know what they’re actually selling. Then their laptops are set to playback pretty demonstrations that make you stop and look, so that the promoters can pounce on you and start doing their job.

BenQ is lucky they have an awesome laptop or I wouldn’t have even noticed them.

Anyway, I managed to get my hands on a camera and I took a bunch of photos which I’ll post up by Sunday. Right now i haven’t bought my laptop because of the lackluster promotion, so I’m hoping BenQ will wake up and start making me want to buy from them.

- Derick